Maxim and Martha Karolik make a large donation of art to the Museum of Fine Arts.

[1949] The donation of over 230 American landscapes and paintings, completed between 1815 and 1865, constitute the largest single donation of paintings in the museum’s history. the Karoliks donate approximately 100 more in 1964. “We discarded the motto of the fashionable connoisseur: ‘Tell me who the painter is and I will tell you whether the painting is good,’” Maxim Karolik later explains. “Our motto was ‘Tell me whether the painting is good and I will not care who the painter is.’”